Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

Geometry existed before creation.

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.